WORKSHOPS
This Workshop is designed to help individuals expand their personal vision. If were shooting subjects, your people skills will be expanded. Lighting and/or seeing better light as per subject and location enhanced. I can help you become more assertive and yet open to allowing the essence of what is before your lens translate with your point of view. If your shooting people, and or telling as story, be it journalistic or formal portraiture, we can together reveal images in a natural way. Lighting and all the elements of capturing a subject need to be addressed; from just seeing a person in the world as a journalist, to styling, makeup, location, lighting and allowing one's character to come through without looking forced. However photo illustration and conceptual ideas are and can be part of the creative process while doing portraits. I will help you to gain access with the camera in a thoughtful and hopefully more evocative way. Each trip is planned around where you want to go and what you need to hone your skills. Be it a portrait, landscape and or nature we will look at everything in a unique special way. The workshop will be a one on one experience that provides you with a wealth of information that has you shooting, mingling, and producing photographs for as many days as you like. I have almost 39 years experience and can share all of it with you from the technical side to intuitive way of thinking. We can plug into what works for you and open some of the creative tools so you really enjoy the process of photography as a whole. I can give you tools to help you if our creatively stuck and I can help you become better at seeing and lighting if that is an area you need to expand. The time spent will be a mix of shooting, discussing the technical information, and being involved with a 24-hour photographic experience. I will show you how to make your life rewarding through your art. Where: You can come to New Mexico for a week or two, travel or I can come to you to explore projects that are relevant in your neck of the woods. We can do day trips or go on the road. We will design the trip for your needs. Students will be responsible for their personal accommodations and transportation to be determined. Admission: A portfolio and personal phone conversation with Karen is required for admission. This is the year round workshop. Karen teaches at the Santa Fe Workshops on occasion and can give you a list of references. Tuition: The tuition is 1000.00 a day, plus travel expenses. Travel expenses include motel rooms and meals while on the road. We don't go high end unless you request it. We go for what is interesting and make the trip an adventure be it day by day or by the week. A week is considered arrival on Sunday depart on Sunday. Shoot Monday through Friday wrap on Saturday. Interested: Call karen at 1 505 401 5987 kuehnphoto@earthlink.net Group workshops available. I look forward to working with you to make an amazing experience with a wealth of knowledge. Your images will improve ten fold. HERE are a few terrific student testimonies: "You will experience the time of you life doing a one on one w/ Karen Kuehn. She is a master at teaching you what you need to know to get great shots! Portraits or landscapes, she will get you to shoot the real stuff & process it. She changed my life & brought my photography to a new level. One week is perfect & she will hook you up w/ the most interesting shoots. A must to do. Don't put it off. A truly amazing teacher & women w/ the biggest heart in the world." ELEANOR PREGER "I have been thinking a lot about what I want to say about working with Karen. I tried to come up with something so cleaver, Richard would dive in head first. No luck. Every time I came up with something, it was coming from the heart, not the head. So here it is. Richard, I met Karen at a Santa Fe Photo workshop when my instructor brought her in for a day of talk and images. Her work captured me. We started a conversation, which lead to me working with her for a full week. Best week I have ever spent and best investment I ever made in my instruction. My work is so much better having spent time with Karen. I take more chances, and I get much better results. It's not about pointing a camera and tripping the shutter. It's about connecting with your subject (person, object, whatever). The workshops are good, and I enjoy going. A dedicated week is so intense and you learn so much more than the workshop week. Make an investment in yourself and your work. You won't regret it. In fact, I loved our week together so much, I had Karen come up to Colorado last year. We did a weekend one studio light shoot. Again, glad I did it. You can do so much with one light. And Karen was spot on. So, take a chance, have fun, and learn lots. You will be much better after your tie with Karen. She is a great teacher, organized, focused, and challenges you to create. Great combo. Good luck." SCOTT MARKEY